Sources say Kong is trying to put together a bid to retake control of the company that today publishes 26 magazines, including freebie city titles such as Angeleno in Los Angeles and Manhattan in New York, five bridal magazines, two interior-design titles and three hotel magazines.

Islamic leaders posed the only viable defense against the erosion of Muslim values by commercial and cultural imports -- values that even the secular Arab, North African, Iranian, and Indonesian values as the cultural matrix of her life, much the way that a New Yorker of Los Angeleno so often acknowledges the Catholicism, Protestantism, or Judaism that has shaped his world.